Don't rush bringing center back to voters

If the issue were simply were the courthouse and jail facilities adequate, the facilities would have been upgraded years ago. The reason they were not is there is a large enough minority that were so dissatisfied with the criminal justice system (police, jail, courts, corrections and prisons) that they would vote against a facilities bond issue.

They were not impressed with claims that reforms have been made primarily because the jail population has continued to grow faster than the population of the county. The "Safety, Security and Space" slogan was a flop because the views of the minority were ignored.

The idea was to keep it simple and short but the unintended outcome was it also was evasive.

In my opinion, it would be folly to put the same proposed solution on the ballot six months from now.

John Neff

Iowa City

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Don't rush bringing center back to voters

If the issue were simply were the courthouse and jail facilities adequate, the facilities would have been upgraded years ago.